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KPK YET TO DECIDE ON SUSPECTS WEARING UNIFORMS IN COURT
Jakarta, Aug 22 (ANTARA) - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has yet to decide whether or not corruption suspects will have to wear prison uniforms when they appear in court, a spokesman said.
"We are still studying the question of whether corruption suspects must also appear in court in prison garb," KPK Chairman Antasari Azhar said here Friday.
"The question is there is also a rule that people must be dressed properly when facing a jury in court," he said in a dialog with regional administration chiefs and regional legislative council chairmen at the Regional Representatives Council (DPD).
Until now, the consensus within KPK was that corruption suspects must wear prison unforms when they are in their jails. "This is for the sake of the principle of equality before the law," he said.
The KPK still did not have a detention center of its own so that people it had arrested had to be accommodated in police jails. Therefore, KPK detainees had to be treated in the same way as other prisoners (who also wear prison uniforms) in police detention centers, Azhar said.
Earlier, a KPK leadership meeting had decided that all KPK detainees would be required to wear uniforms. But KPK Vice Chairman M Jasin later said the decision still needed to be worked out in more specific detail.
The KPK's legal affairs bureau had been assigned to study the legal aspects of the decision, including the powers of judicial bodies, the procedural law and human rights, Jasin said.
The commission's education and public services bureau was tasked to propose the design of the uniform which had to meet certain norms of propriety, civility and deterrent effect.
It had also been decided that the requirement for KPK detainees to wear uniforms should be implemented starting this year. "We will certainly not wait until 2009," Jasin said.
"We are still studying the question of whether corruption suspects must also appear in court in prison garb," KPK Chairman Antasari Azhar said here Friday.
"The question is there is also a rule that people must be dressed properly when facing a jury in court," he said in a dialog with regional administration chiefs and regional legislative council chairmen at the Regional Representatives Council (DPD).
Until now, the consensus within KPK was that corruption suspects must wear prison unforms when they are in their jails. "This is for the sake of the principle of equality before the law," he said.
The KPK still did not have a detention center of its own so that people it had arrested had to be accommodated in police jails. Therefore, KPK detainees had to be treated in the same way as other prisoners (who also wear prison uniforms) in police detention centers, Azhar said.
Earlier, a KPK leadership meeting had decided that all KPK detainees would be required to wear uniforms. But KPK Vice Chairman M Jasin later said the decision still needed to be worked out in more specific detail.
The KPK's legal affairs bureau had been assigned to study the legal aspects of the decision, including the powers of judicial bodies, the procedural law and human rights, Jasin said.
The commission's education and public services bureau was tasked to propose the design of the uniform which had to meet certain norms of propriety, civility and deterrent effect.
It had also been decided that the requirement for KPK detainees to wear uniforms should be implemented starting this year. "We will certainly not wait until 2009," Jasin said.
